2018 Datanami Readers’ & Editors’ Choice Awards

Best Big Data Product or Technology: Streaming Analytics

Readers’ ChoiceConfluent Platform
Confluent Platform. Developed by the creators of Apache Kafka, the Confluent Platform is staking out new ground by helping to lower the barrier to entry into the world of streaming data and analytics.

Editors’ ChoiceGoogle Cloud Dataflow
Google Cloud Dataflow. Google is helping to unify development and delivery of batch and stream processing within a single workflow based on the Apache Beam model. Once again, Google is out in front of everybody else, which wins it an ECA here.